Mr. Forster: Mother, the problem is we cannot cash any of these checks
Madre Teresa: I don't understand. Why not?
Father Serrano: Because none of these associations exist.
Mr. Forster: We have thousands of volunteers that work for us but not one single organization that binds them all together.
Madre Teresa: As soon as three people get themselves together in a room all they want to do is set up a company.
Father Serrano: But there aren't just three of us anymore, Mother. We have volunteers all over the world.
Anna: Mother Teresa, I think the idea of an association would be a good one. We could put thousands of volunteers in different countries in contact with one another. We would be better coordinated.
Mr. Forster: We could publish a newsletter to bind our organization together.
Madre Teresa: I don't want to form a company. I'm not interested in numbers. I just want our work to be the work of love.
Father Serrano: And why should it change, Mother? Why can't there be love in all this?
Madre Teresa: Let me tell you something. I would prefer things simpler. More... how can I put it? More disorganized. Happily disorganized.
[Extracted from the movie Madre Teresa - 01:15:15h]
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Madre Teresa - Pray
Madre Teresa: You need more tests. You must return home.
Anna: But why? This is my life.
Madre Teresa: Your life... our lives belong to the Lord. He is the one who leads us by the hand.
Anna: My place is here.
Madre Teresa: You will serve Christ in another way.
Anna: How? What is there I can do?
Madre Teresa: Pray. Yes, pray. The work we do here is important. But what is more important is that the work be supported by prayer. That is what keeps everything going. I have a mission for you Anna. I need special helpers. People who can join us in spirit and offer their prayers and their suffering to God. Your body will be in London but your soul will remain here ... helping me build the City of Peace. Will you help me like this?
Anna: But is I don't have the strength, Mother?
Madre Teresa: I know it's difficult, Anna. But we must have faith and believe that it's in moments like these that God loves us the most.
[Extracted from the movie Madre Teresa - 01:21:00h]
Anna: But why? This is my life.
Madre Teresa: Your life... our lives belong to the Lord. He is the one who leads us by the hand.
Anna: My place is here.
Madre Teresa: You will serve Christ in another way.
Anna: How? What is there I can do?
Madre Teresa: Pray. Yes, pray. The work we do here is important. But what is more important is that the work be supported by prayer. That is what keeps everything going. I have a mission for you Anna. I need special helpers. People who can join us in spirit and offer their prayers and their suffering to God. Your body will be in London but your soul will remain here ... helping me build the City of Peace. Will you help me like this?
Anna: But is I don't have the strength, Mother?
Madre Teresa: I know it's difficult, Anna. But we must have faith and believe that it's in moments like these that God loves us the most.
[Extracted from the movie Madre Teresa - 01:21:00h]
Friday, September 26, 2008
Virtude
"O primeiro passo para a Virtude
é amar a Virtude nos outros."
Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia.
[Extraído de: O Livro do Ben - Organização: Juliet Mabey - p. 9]
é amar a Virtude nos outros."
Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia.
[Extraído de: O Livro do Ben - Organização: Juliet Mabey - p. 9]
Eclesiastes 3,1-11
1Tudo tem seu tempo. Há um momento oportuno para tudo o que acontece debaixo do céu. 2Tempo de nascer e tempo de morrer; tempo de plantar e tempo de colher a planta. 3Tempo de matar e tempo de salvar; tempo de destruir e tempo de construir. 4Tempo de chorar e tempo de rir; tempo de lamentar e tempo de dançar. 5Tempo de atirar pedras e tempo de as amontoar; tempo de abraçar e tempo de separar. 6Tempo de buscar e tempo de perder; tempo de guardar e tempo de esbanjar. 7Tempo de rasgar e tempo de costurar; tempo de calar e tempo de falar. 8Tempo de amar e tempo de odiar; tempo de guerra e tempo de paz.
9Que proveito tira o trabalhador de seu esforço? 10Observei a tarefa que Deus impôs aos homens, para que nela se ocupassem. 11As coisas que ele fez são todas boas no tempo oportuno. Além disso, ele dispôs que fossem permanentes; no entanto o homem jamais chega a conhecer o princípio e o fim da ação que Deus realiza.
[See also http://heronsilva.blogspot.com/2008/09/byrds-turn-turn-turn-to-everything.html]
9Que proveito tira o trabalhador de seu esforço? 10Observei a tarefa que Deus impôs aos homens, para que nela se ocupassem. 11As coisas que ele fez são todas boas no tempo oportuno. Além disso, ele dispôs que fossem permanentes; no entanto o homem jamais chega a conhecer o princípio e o fim da ação que Deus realiza.
[See also http://heronsilva.blogspot.com/2008/09/byrds-turn-turn-turn-to-everything.html]
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
... Como se vê, Cristo designa-se a si mesmo como lâmpada. Sendo Deus por natureza, tornou-se carne no plano da salvação, uma luz escondida na carne, tal como debaixo de um vaso. ...
[Extraído de http://blog.cancaonova.com/homilia/2008/09/22
Postado por: Padre Bantu Mendonça K. Sayla September 22nd, 2008]
Comentando o Evangelho segundo Lucas 8,16: "ninguém acende uma lâmpada para cobri-la com uma vasilha ou colocá-la debaixo da cama; ao contrário, coloca-a no candeeiro, a fim de que todos os que entram vejam a luz".
Será a cruz o candeeiro? ou a Igreja?
[Extraído de http://blog.cancaonova.com/homilia/2008/09/22
Postado por: Padre Bantu Mendonça K. Sayla September 22nd, 2008]
Comentando o Evangelho segundo Lucas 8,16: "ninguém acende uma lâmpada para cobri-la com uma vasilha ou colocá-la debaixo da cama; ao contrário, coloca-a no candeeiro, a fim de que todos os que entram vejam a luz".
Será a cruz o candeeiro? ou a Igreja?
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